Frederick and Gertrude Chadbourn House

Frederick and Gertrude Chadbourn House

Frederick and Gertrude Chadbourn House Photograph by Bill Guerin, courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society
1900, Van Ryn and de Gelleke. 314 S. Charles St.

Set under the shady boughs of sugar maples, with a small grove of conifers at the rear, this house evokes a pre-industrial age. Chadbourn, a prominent banker and philanthropist, commissioned architects in Milwaukee to design this Tudor Revival house, influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. The house has a rock-faced sandstone foundation, clapboard and shingle siding, and half-timbered upper walls, which combine to add texture and color to the design. Hexagonal bays, bow windows, flared eaves, and cusped bargeboards in the small front-facing gables enliven the asymmetrical plan. The gabled entrance porch features a semi-elliptical arch and a pierced wooden railing.

The carriage house, also by Van Ryn and de Gelleke, shows similar attention to detail. Patterned shingles lend a variety of textures, while the juxtaposition of intersecting gables and hipped dormers creates a lively roofline.

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